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Mine is a Panasonic and I’ve been using it for thirteen years now. It’s bulletproof and cooks rice like a champ.

Tangential to the content of the blog, I’m always weary of anything being labeled “anonymous” if it contains a lot of text that you personally wrote. Stylometry is a thing and it a…

I had bad insomnia during graduate school, tried just about everything under the sun (medication, sleep studies, lifestyle changes, herbs) and eventually did CBT-I with a therapist…

Some of these salaries are hilarious. I work in a small city in the Southeast at about 250k cash comp and feel blessed because of it. Leave it to HN to make me feel that tinge of e…

I store moderately sensitive files in VeraCrypt containers. Are there post-quantum encryption algorithms on the roadmap for this type of storage software?

Methamphetamine is a prescription drug in US, brand name Desoxyn.

I get the same weird anxiety reading these threads. I was making 50k base as a post-doc, anxious about ex-academic friends making 80k in the "real world". Then I got a corporate jo…

I posted this on the other discussion related to this, but would love to get feedback here. ----------------- I can understand this position, but I'd be curious what your thoughts …

I can understand this position, but I'd be curious what your thoughts are on how to best (I realize there is no perfect) keep your data private from snooping employees, hackers, or…

I'll be completely honest, as your standard "data scientist" who hopped on the bandwagon and came from having a PhD in academia in an unrelated field, I cringe at these articles. I…

I have always had impostor syndrome, but also a somewhat revelatory idea that most people are just human beings full of shit too. Let me explain. In college, I revered my professor…

I'm genuinely interested in hearing pros and cons on the Chinese government from Chinese who are currently living in mainland China. Particularly on the topics that are the biggest…

I've wanted to run forensics tools on my computer for a while, just to see what type of information I leave behind. Will that old resume I deleted 5-years ago show up on my HD? Wil…

Isn't the issue that they are discussing getting rid of term limits altogether? As opposed to setting a higher term limit? If so, how is it a fair comparison to Germany or Japan? I…

I was in graduate school in the biological sciences, and the vast majority of papers were formatted using word and some extension for reference management. At one point I really wa…

I've started my search to buy a place in Midtown, precisely because of the walkability. The prices really do reflect it..

Can someone more knowledgeable than me in regards to this vulnerability tell me: 1. How to best protect my local personal data from being subject to this? 2. Whether I should serio…

My entire life, but especially in graduate school, I've had horrible sleep. Both falling asleep, and staying asleep. I did multiple sleep studies, used sleeping medications, took s…

Devil's advocate on this - what if the general population of your customers don't want to support a company that pays the salary of a murderer? Then it affects your bottom line. Wo…

I grew up next to (literally) the Yamaguchi-gumi headquarters. Never once did I feel unsafe there, or anywhere else in Japan. It really is a night and day difference.

What's the VeraCrypt container for? Isn't the DB already encrypted?

I was doing fMRI work around the time this paper was published. It astonished me that people would simply set an uncorrected voxel-level threshold and call it a day. No FWE-correct…

I always ask this on the VPN threads here, and don't feel like I get a solid answer (I'm not particularly well-versed on the topic so I'm genuinely curious and would love to be cor…

I think there's different things going on here. If I were to point out women that I find physically attractive solely from a set of pictures, they'd probably skew to the younger si…

This is something that's always been fascinating to me. In any thread about privacy, there's always a comment along the lines of "if your threat model is a nation-state, then you'r…